9305 - Cloud Platform Software Developer

ABOUT WIND RIVER

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world.  Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and  building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Within the Wind River Cloud team, we work with large-scale projects like Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack and fast-paced Open-Source technologies that are in high demand from our customers.  Wind River Cloud has adopted these technologies into the core of our product, which is driving us to find experienced and high-performing individuals that can learn and contribute to these full software stack solutions to fulfill the strict requirements of edge computing use cases from security to high availability.  The team delivers in the areas of configuration management, fault management and host management.  In addition, Wind River Cloud team is a leading contributor to the Open Source StarlingX cloud native project, to manage and maintain the critical infrastructure for highly distributed Edge solutions, primarily 5G. 

The right candidate will possess proven software engineering skills.  You are expected to be versatile and able to thrive in a dynamic environment developing linux processes and Kubernetes applications. You are comfortable managing competing priorities and can bring order to ambiguous scenarios. Maturity, impeccable judgment, and the ability to influence and lead are essential to success in this role.  

  
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop high quality, testable code for processes that run natively on Linux
• Develop solutions that are highly available across multiple Linux hosts
• Develop solutions for configuration management across multiple Linux hosts
• Develop solutions for process monitoring and recovery of services running in Linux
• Develop solutions for configuration and state information backup and retrieval
• Diagnose issues related to Linux processes in the areas of high availability, process monitoring, system active / standby failover, configuration management and inter-process communication
• Contribute actively to StarlingX, an open-source project under the OpenStack Foundation - a fully featured cloud for the distributed edge ( https://www.starlingx.io/software/ )
• Work as part of a team focused on building and maintaining Linux-based platform services that ensure high availability for Kubernetes-based applications
• Investigate and resolve issues reported during product verification and customer integration.  
• Participate in all aspects of the software development process using agile development

 ABOUT YOU

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• 5+ years of professional software development experience 
• 3+ years of programming experience with Python
• 3+ years of programming experience on Linux platform

Preferred Qualifications:  

• 3+ years of professional experience building infrastructure software for distributed systems
• Track record of building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production software systems
• Experience in OSTree, Ansible, Puppet 
• Proficient in C/C++
• Experience in Kubernetes application development
• Proficient in L2/L3 networking 
• Contribution to the open-source community
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• Strong analytical and debugging skills

BENEFITS

• Hybrid work model for workplace flexibility
• Comprehensive health, dental, and life insurance
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• RRSP matching for financial security
• Flexible time-off policies for work-life balance
• Employee assistance program for mental well-being
• Learning benefits, including a LinkedIn Learning subscription and seminars

Join us at Wind River, where we're not just shaping technology; we're shaping the future of a safer, more connected world. Your journey to make a meaningful impact begins here.  

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